Definition of brood

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Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding..

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Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..
Brood :: Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..
Nide :: Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants..
Broody :: Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Covey :: Covey (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges..
Subjective :: Subjective (a.) Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states..
Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..
Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..
Covey :: Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
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